What attracts you in skiing?

sui-kide

sui-kide

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I got asked this question by my grandma today, and I haven't seen too many threads like this so I wanted to ask you, ns fellas, this question too. What is it that attracts you?
 
Time to sit down with grandma and dig up a movie like Warren Millers 'fifty' .. it'll do a lot of the explaining for you!
 
14003113:eljefe said:
Time to sit down with grandma and dig up a movie like Warren Millers 'fifty' .. it'll do a lot of the explaining for you!
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Indeed. Just wondering what it is personally for everyone
 
I'd say the mix of challenge and personal expression, with a relationship to the physical world. The fact that you can be active, skilled, and creative while spending time in the mountains overcoming conditions most people would complain about is pretty fucking sick.
 
This girl in my class Felicia. Felicia likes to ski. Felicia's family owns a house in Aspen and Truckee. Felicia is a killer skier. Felicia never noticed me before really. Not that I can ski blues and some blacks, I can ski with Felicia sometimes and talk to her on the chairlift. Wait till I learn how to hit a ramp jump. Felicia loves ramp jumps.

Ok, I have no idea where that was going. I think same as everyone else. Skiing is fun, and fun things are fun.
 
Adrenaline

Scenery

Excitement

Friends (because skiing with people imo is always better than solo)

Ask your grandma if she's ever rode a sled before. Well grandma, imagine a sled that you can control and goes 10 times faster and takes 30 times as long to get to the bottom.....all while listening to your favorite classical music. She will understand.

Also, skiing ruined sled riding for me.
 
14003366:runforlove2018 said:
Adrenaline

Scenery

Excitement

Friends (because skiing with people imo is always better than solo)

Ask your grandma if she's ever rode a sled before. Well grandma, imagine a sled that you can control and goes 10 times faster and takes 30 times as long to get to the bottom.....all while listening to your favorite classical music. She will understand.

Also, skiing ruined sled riding for me.
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Getting air on one of those old fashioned sleds with the metal runners was quite a rush.

Mom would drive us kids to the sledding hill and set us free while she sat in the car. We would get a running start, jump on the sled and try to go as fast as we can to hit the bump at the bottom. Its a shame I didn't learn to ski as a kid. Oh well Im making up for it now.

Freedom, expression, adrenaline rush, exercise, challenge , and the rare occasion I get to ski with a friend are it for me.
 
14003187:sui-kide said:
Indeed. Just wondering what it is personally for everyone
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True, didn't answer your question.

The longer I ski the broader that attraction is.. at a simple level it's the challenge of learning technique and being able to push against the edge of being in & out of control..

And then it's mastery.. skiing is more interesting to me now than it was 15-20-25 years ago when I was just getting started..

It's multi-faceted, the mountains have soul to them and eventually it has just become, 'because I am a skier..'
 
Used to play AA hockey until i couldnt handle the parents yelling at their kids in the stands anymore. It really took the meaning of the game away and made me hate team sports. When i started full time skiing, (i started skiing around 4 but would never get more then 20 days on the hill until around 13) i couldn't believe how free i felt. No one tells you what to do. You, yourself and your headphones, along with your shred pals. It doesn't get much better then that.
 
I think its all about the vibes because all of my friends are all friendly on the hill even to people that they don't know and want help with new tricks and such and think that's dope because when I started I just asked people for help and they did and I like to see new skiers so I think that's what attracted me
 
I love the freedom. You can go anywhere you want and when you want to. You can choose what tricks to do. Just the pure freedom, I think skiing or any action sport in general is way better than something like football, soccer, or basketball just because of the freedom and you can express yourself.
 
What got me at first was that it was the first place I felt like I could go anywhere or do anything by myself, so the exploration part of it. What kept me going back is the adrenaline rush I get from scaring myself, and riding with good people is the shit.
 
I used to fruitboot in the late 90s, skiing is a great subsitute to blading during winter. Fell in love with it on the spot and it beats having a cabin fever thru whole season

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THE WIND IN MY FACE SAYING WOO LIKE THE LIL PIGGY WHO WENT ALL THE WAY HOME..

THEN GETTING SOME CHIC TO SIT ON MY FACE LATER THAT NIGHT

then having stories so i can tell my grandkids I seen some shit
 
14006085:AstroKush said:
I used to fruitboot in the late 90s, skiing is a great subsitute to blading during winter. Fell in love with it on the spot and it beats having a cabin fever thru whole season

**This post was edited on Mar 1st 2019 at 1:17:54pm
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Same and skiing is just like rollerblading
 
Every part of skiing. Skiing is like a gang that is positive, that supports you and is super fun, and the chances of dying are less
 
Everything about it. I think I've fallen so in love with skiing that I am incapable of feeling any sort of love towards any other people because I've already found the love of my life. Pretty sure that's why I can never hold a steady relationship.

i need help
 
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